Author: Ronald Firbank
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853262951
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Valmouth is one of Firbank's most dazzling novels. Set in an English seaside health resort where the air promotes extraordinary longevity, Valmouth is dominated by the exotic and manipulative black masseuse, Mrs Yajnavalkya. Unhampered by class or creed, the ubiquitous Yajnavalkya moves between the strata of Valmouth society, bringing relief that is not without elements of eroticism ...
Valmouth and Other Stories
Author: Ronald Firbank
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853262951
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Valmouth is one of Firbank's most dazzling novels. Set in an English seaside health resort where the air promotes extraordinary longevity, Valmouth is dominated by the exotic and manipulative black masseuse, Mrs Yajnavalkya. Unhampered by class or creed, the ubiquitous Yajnavalkya moves between the strata of Valmouth society, bringing relief that is not without elements of eroticism ...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781853262951
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Valmouth is one of Firbank's most dazzling novels. Set in an English seaside health resort where the air promotes extraordinary longevity, Valmouth is dominated by the exotic and manipulative black masseuse, Mrs Yajnavalkya. Unhampered by class or creed, the ubiquitous Yajnavalkya moves between the strata of Valmouth society, bringing relief that is not without elements of eroticism ...
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with the Merry Men and Other Stories
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories
Valmouth and Other Novels
Author: Ronald Firbank
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Well-Beloved with the Pursuit of the Well-Beloved
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840224054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840224054
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Jocelyn Pierston, celebrated sculptor, tries to create an image of his ideal woman - his imaginary "Well-Beloved" - in stone, just as he tries to find her in the flesh.
Shirley
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Shirley is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260643
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Shirley is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing brother - also stand at odds to society's expectations.
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This novel is a tale of human bondage. The author's realistic and explicit descriptions of the fall of Emma Bovary into adultery, debt and eventual death at her own hand, shocked the establishment at the time it was published.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853260780
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
This novel is a tale of human bondage. The author's realistic and explicit descriptions of the fall of Emma Bovary into adultery, debt and eventual death at her own hand, shocked the establishment at the time it was published.
Wessex Tales
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Wessex Tales was the first collection of Hardy's short stories, and they reflect the experience of a novelist at the height of his powers.
The Return of the Native
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The central figure of this novel is the returning "native", Clym Yeobright, and his love for the beautiful but capricious Eustacia Vye.
Fathers and Sons
Author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, this novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Set in 1859 at the moment when the Russian autocratic state began to move hesitantly towards social and political reform, this novel explores the conflict between the liberal-minded fathers of Russian reformist sympathies and their free-thinking intellectual sons whose revolutionary ideology threatened the stability of the state.
The Best Short Stories
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261794
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing togheter the very best of his work
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853261794
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This is a fascinating selection of Kipling's most famous short stories, bringing togheter the very best of his work